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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you do Remote lp spooling?
Message-ID: <1386@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 16:01:34 GMT
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Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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There are two lp interface styles popular in this house, for SysV remote
printing.  
MACHINE=remote machine name.
TYPE=remote printer name or class
FILE= file to be printed
OPTIONS= options fed to the remote interface

The first uses uucp access:
	uux - -n "$MACHINE"!lp -d$TYPE $OPTIONS < $FILE

The other uses /usr/spool/lp/.rhost equivalenced to mymachine!lp

	rcmd $MACHINE "lp -d$TYPE " <$FILE
rcmd appears to need different command lines, depending on whether [ $OPTIONS ]
	rcmd $MACHINE "lp -d$TYPE -o\"$OPTIONS\"" <$FILE

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